From oldzuto@yahoo.com Mon Jan 29 05:20:46 2007
Subject:Re: Bargin preamps

I have built the 9305 and also made an additional circuit to drive my 6 pin 145 style Leslies and switch speeds (there was enough extra room in the case to add the additional parts). The PAiA people are very helpful. The preamp works very well. I own a Speakeasy (preamp, not AMA) as well. They are different beasts. The PAiA allows you to dial in much more grind/distortion/overdrive...whatever one terms it...than the Speakeasy, but the Speakeasy is more "tuned" to providing a richer hammond organ tone to clones. With all that said, I currently do not use either one of them, or my Leslies at gigs. Just too much stuff to lug around every weekend. I use either B4, or my Nord, or my Motif rack for all my organ sounds and use their internal overdrive and leslie sounds. No stage amps, all going thru front of house with stage sound provided via the monitors. Close enough for the gigs we play and most people have not a clue. In fact I had an older guy come up to me during a break at
our Saturday day gig and swear that I must be playing back a recording of a hammond and leslie on a couple of songs and not really playing them live!! (Gimme Some Lovin and You Keep Me Hangin On). He refused to believe that both of those were from a layered combination of the Motif and Nord. Anyway, if you are good at soldering and building kits the PAiA stuff is cool. If not and you want a tube preamp, spend the bucks and get the Speakeasy. Another advantage of the Speakeasy gear is it is built very tough and can withstand the abuse of the road. The PAiA I would say must be mounted in a rack case to keep it safe. Someone else tried a low cost one and said they liked it... I think it was an Electro-Harmonix LBP-2UBE? As always these are just my opinions!


Allan Evett wrote:
I'm intrigued...I checked out PAiA's site; ...a lot of
helpful stuff on there.
The 9305HSR Rack Mount TubeHead interests me. I'm
curious if any other Clonewheel members have used this
or any other PAiA products.

Chris, I'm definitely not a bench tech - though I've
been able to do simple repairs, upgrades, etc.
(replacing keys, op-amps, memory; connection repairs &
some light soldering...). Are these "kits" fairly
straightforward to put together ? Decent instructions
?

Thanks,

Allan

--- Chirs Richmond wrote:

> Does anyone have any opinions on using a PAIA stereo
> tube preamp with
> clone wheels? I bought and built one, and so far,
> its seems to help with
> the
> sound. No idea how it compares to a Speakeasy.
> I've got a CX-3 piped into
> the pre, then into the PA (in my music room), so
> I've for tubes and stereo
> Leslie sim into decent speakers.
>
> http://www.paia.com/proddetail.asp?prod=9305HSR
>
> Chris
>
> Got this one first and really liked it:
> http://www.paia.com/proddetail.asp?prod=9210K
> The tube part of the circuits are very similar.
>
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>
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